Why does The Hunt have scene clipping and falling through the map on a Zhitai TiPro9000? Do I need a firmware update?

When sprinting through the forest, the ground textures would just vanish and my character would fall into the void. In 4K, this kind of clipping completely kills the immersion. The Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB was fluctuating between 65-72MB/s for random reads, but certain sectors had brutal latency spikes, meaning model data wasn't hitting the VRAM fast enough. I tried lowering texture quality, but the game looked cheap and I was still falling through the map—a frustrating realization that this was a hardware-level issue. I updated the firmware via the official utility and forced the Windows power plan to 'High Performance' to stop the drive from entering low-power states. CrystalDiskMark now shows a smooth read curve, and the world loads perfectly. I had a weird 3-second detection delay on the first boot after the update, but a quick M.2 reseat fixed it. Temps are steady at 42-48℃. Using the in-game performance overlay, my frame times are now locked at 5.1-6.4ms.